Re: 8" B&W film development?

[jamiehy <jamiehy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>	Jamie recently mentioned  Paterson reels converted to take 8"
>Cirkut film
>don't work with Verichrome B&W due to the thin film base. There was another
>post on converting stainless reels to 8". Has anyone tried loaded
>Verichrome onto one of these? What other method does everyone suggest to
>develop 8" (or 9 1/2" or 10") B&W?
>
>
>					Leonard

My present method is using one large tray- 7' by 10.5" , and rollo pyro from
bostick & sullivan, developing at 7.5 min at 70 degrees. It works great. I
had my local heating place (heating and air conditioning places often do
sheet metal work in stainless)  make me the tray. It cost about $70 . I use
buckets and pour them into the tray to switch chemicals.I can do this
because pyro is a one time developer  that takes water as a stop, so I
don't need lights till the fixer, which I can then pour back into the
bucket to reuse.  I've been processing aero plus x around 7-8.5 mins as
well.My reason for using pyro is to hopefully do alt processing pritns
later and pyro works well with traditional silver prints and alt prints.
 jamie